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Noble Words.

Jefferson Davis has given voice L
many noble sentiments, clothed il
words that impressed them strongly
upon readers and auditors alike, bu
he seems recently to have touched s
chord that has a far-reachlng re
sporse. In the course Of a recent
speech before the Press Association
Of Mississippi, Mr.. Davis used these
words:
but now those scenes and Incl
dents have passed, and they only
live in mind and history. United
you are now. and if the union is ever
to be broken, let the other side
break it. The army Of the South
will shine forever around the camp
fires, and will shine to our children's
children. The truths We fought fol
shall not encourage you to ever fight
again; but keep your word in good
or evil"
Nobody dares doubt the loyalty Of
Mr.. Davis to the Southern people
during their separate national exis'
tence. and there is still lese room to
question his devotion to them and to
their rights during the period when
those rights were counted as nothing
by the government of the United
States. No other man can more
safely and consistently utter such a
sentiment as that just quoted. From
no other lips could these words nave
more effect upon those who were
once wont to belittle and abuse him.
Or the impression made by his re,
cent speech, some extracts from
Northern papers will give o good
idea.
The Philadelphia Times, in com.
menting on the speech, says:
with slavery the South got rid OF
its foolish and antiquated notions
about the degradation of work, and
with work and the development of
the natural resources, which had been
hid as in a napkin heretofore, the
South has found out the source of
real strength. It would take a man
of much duller perception than JET.
ferson Davis not to recognize all this,
and it is to his credit that he has
made up his mind to declare in
words what he must have long felt in
his heart
The Springfield Republican rejoices
in Mr.. Davis's sentiments, and
thinks that "he grows more lively
and modern every day."
The New York Evening Post makes
this deduction from the remarks of
Mr.. Davis:
"For long time. whatever else
failed, the venerable bloody shirt
shakers, like Senator Hoar, could
fall back upon JEFF Davis and Bob
Toombs and say that they were just
as bad rebels as ever they were.
But Toombs is dead, and now Davis
has become reconciled. There is
nothing to cling to, and Horace
Greeley's memorable prediction may
be said to be fulfilled: Your at
tempt to base great, enduring party
upon the hate and wrath necessarily
engendered hy g bloody civil war is as
though you should plant colony on
an iceberg which had somehow drift.
ed into tropical ocean,"
The Philadelphia Press has these
good words to say:
There is nothing in the speech of
Jefferson Davis at Meridian, Miss,
that can provoke the suspicious of
the most Jealous lover Of the Union.
The ex-Confederate chieftain spoke
for the Union and expressed the SEN
timent that if the Union is ever to
be broken, let the other side break
it,"
The Philadelphia Neus says that
this speech marks an epoch in
history, and sounds the
dea,h-k -knell of sectionalism. 1t con.
tinues:
The strength of mind, the mental
courage required to enable jeff Davis
to say to his people, "the truth. we
fought for shall not encourage you
ever to fight again. demands cordial
recognition. For the first time in
nearly thirty years the North can
well afford to put aside resentment
and to join the South in praise of
Jeff Davis"
1t is healthy sign when utterances
of the leader of the so-called Rebel
lion is taken as sincere and is ap-
plauded as an evidence of genuine
patriotism. Jefferson Davis may
live long enough to have the good
will of every good citizen of the